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Summary. The attached files add an Individual, Family and GenoMap Timelines  feature to the English Narrative Report. To use it, create an empty GenoPro customized skin folder e.g. Customized English Narrative Report with Timelines, and unpack the contents of the attached zip file into it.

 Then generate a report using this custom skin.

Usage Notes.

1. Config.xml contains a number of new parameters used to customise the Timeline:
       Timelines="Y" set this to "N" if you do not want Timelines to appear in your report
       TimelineMinEventsIndividual="2"  Mimimum no. of events before a Timeline is produced for a particular individual.
       TimelineMinEventsFamily="2"  Mimimum no. of events before a Timeline is produced for a particular family.
       TimelineShowDuration="N" Whether or not 'duration' bars are displayed initially. (Can be toggeld on and off in Report)
       TimelineContemporary="Y" Whether or not 'duration' bars are to be displayed for events that are still current.
   These parameters can of course either be changed in Config.xml or set using GenoPro Document Custom Tags.
2. Dictionary.xml contains settings for the colours of the text and bars in the Timelines and can be changed if required. Not that the (hexadecimal) RGB color values should be used. Note also that when used for a duration bar, a 20% opacity value is applied to the colour. The Timeline widget also allows other aspects of the theme to be changed but this has not been implemented here.
3. The GenoMap timelines initially display a 'note' event giving details of how the navigate the timeline. You can also pan the Timeline by clciking the mouse wheel and dragging or by double clicking at the ends of the visible Timeline area when hand cursor is displayed.
4. Information bubble/balloons are not displayed on the Individual & Family Timelines because most of the information is already available on the same page.
5. The Simile Timeline Javascripts are now included in the custom skin and will be copioes into the report location rather than being dynamically downloaded from the MIT site when the report is viewed. This is because the scripts have been amended to permit coloured duration bars and will also isolate the generated Report from changes & availability of the MIT site.

Update VI: 14/4/07 Version 2.0.0.3l posted

Hi Ron, I did exactly as you said with the Customized English Narrative skin I had made a few days ago with version 2.0.0.3  but got this error.

 ?

I got the following error when I try to open a timeline from the timeline index

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: invalid character
Code:0
URL: file://c:\Report\Timeline.htm

Line: 1228
Char: 2
Error: 'tl' is null or not an object
Code:0
URL: file://c:\Report\Timeline.htm

In the person or family pages it works fine until zoom in or out, or toogle timeline duration bars, or refresh the page. ... got the same error.

Thanks

Hugo

PS. The new feature are excellent! regards!

Edited: Monday, April 2, 2007 by haep

Update: This error is extremely frustrating. The line number and filename  given in the error message seem to be a complete red herring - oh Microsoft why do you do this! And the only decent Javascript debugger, VenkMan,  is for Mozilla Firefox only so is not much use here!

1) When i press the button "toggle timeline duration bar on/off" some individuals disappear.

2) When i edit the config.xml and set TimelineShowDuration="Y"  i got this error: "Caught exception : SyntaxError : missing : after property id."  (With FireFox),   "Caught exception [Object error]" with IE6.

PD: Congratulations Ron, this software is the great.

Thanks

Edited: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 by EDilena

I've corrected the TimelineShowDuration issue and also managed to get it working with IE. So should now be useable with FF 1.5 & 2, IE 6 & 7. See revised attachment, version 2.0.03i, to my 1st post in this thread.

There is a bug in the Timeline API such that if the timeline area has a vertical scroll bar then the information bubbles/balloons are misplaced when the timeline has been scrolled vertically. Also, IE7, poor thing, gets a bit confused with the vertical scroll bar and decides to add one to the frame as well as a completely useless one for the timeline because It spills the timeline out of its containing box.

Could you please provide more info on the 'disappearing' individuals. ¿What attributes do they have in common, start date end date, etc.? ¿Do they really disappear or just yet repainted in a different position?

Ej: Duration bar off : All data

Ej: Duration bar on   Common data : All individuals are dead and end unions.

Edited: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 by EDilena